Designing,Developing,and Marketing Multimedia Products

Abstract

In the future, more and more technical writers across the discipline are likely to become involved in designing and developing multimedia products. Entering this new, challenging, and rewarding field requires retooling current skills used in the production of text-based information products to add knowledge of a wider range of media, including audio, video, computer graphics, digital photography, and authoring systems. This article presents an overview of the process of bringing a multimedia product to the point of sale.